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Evaluation of a patient safety programme on Surgical Safety Checklist compliance: a prospective longitudinal study.

August 15, 2018

Gillespie BM, Harbeck EL, Lavin J, et al. BMJ Open Qual. 2018;7(3):e000362.

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Checklists like the Universal Protocol are a widely accepted strategy for reducing wrong site, wrong procedure, and wrong patient surgeries. The authors describe a campaign that improved checklist participation and completion in an academic hospital in Australia. A PSNet interview with Lucian Leape explored the challenges of achieving robust and universal use of checklists.

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